Yu-Hsuan Li Liang
2026
Pseudo2Real: Task Arithmetic for Pseudo-Label Correction in Automatic Speech Recognition
Yi-Cheng Lin | Yu-Hsuan Li Liang | Hsuan Su | Tzu-Quan Lin | Shang-Tse Chen | Yun-Nung Chen | Hung-yi Lee
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Yi-Cheng Lin | Yu-Hsuan Li Liang | Hsuan Su | Tzu-Quan Lin | Shang-Tse Chen | Yun-Nung Chen | Hung-yi Lee
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Robust ASR under domain shift is crucial because real-world systems encounter unseen accents and domains with limited labeled data. Although pseudo-labeling offers a practical workaround, it often introduces systematic, accent-specific errors that filtering fails to fix. We ask: How can we correct these recurring biases without target ground truth? We propose a simple parameter-space correction: in a source domain containing both real and pseudo-labeled data, two ASR models are fine-tuned from the same initialization, one on ground-truth labels and the other on pseudo-labels, and their weight difference forms a correction vector that captures pseudo-label biases.When applied to a pseudo-labeled target model, this vector enhances recognition, achieving up to a 35% relative Word Error Rate (WER) reduction on AfriSpeech-200 across ten African accents with the Whisper tiny model.